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...University official said yesterday he has asked the Planning Office to research possible ways to improve some freshman dormitories' fire escapes that may not conform to state codes...
...week's end federal authorities had not yet identified the kidnapers by name. But as admitted members of the Red Army Faction, they presumably conform to a generic profile of the contemporary terrorists put together by the computers of the Federal Criminal Office. Almost all the known disciples of Andreas Baader are well-educated products of respectable-sometimes prominent-middle-and upper-middle-class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses...
...countries should find that his position is in direct contravention to the position of all the other parties involved, including ourselves and the Soviet Union, and was a narrowly defined question in his own country, there would be a great impetus on that leader to conform with the overwhelming opinion...
...meet the strict auto pollution standards for 1978, claiming that present technology will not permit them to meet the goals without driving up gas consumption beyond the limits set by other federal laws. Though Congress has not yet acted, the automakers have tooled up their '78 models to conform to the less strict 1977 standards anyway, knowing that if the law is not changed in time, they cannot deliver their cars to dealers without risking a $10,000 fine on every car shipped...
...Wilson met the needs of his own personality, it led him to make statements rooted in illusion. Wilson, in the judgment of his chronicler, was at once the keeper of a rigid conscience and the creature of a political system that worked only when he bent that conscience to conform. Wilson found that the power of his office could carry him only so far. Then, the historian declared, the President either had to combine influence with compromise or, defending virtue, lose his way. Carter, "the missionary," travels a hazardous course...